Biography
Tim Edwards is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Leicester. His primary research interests include gender studies, and particularly analyses of masculinity, sexuality, fashion and consumer culture, the interface between social and cultural theory, and social divisions.
Overall , Cultures of Masculinity is a comprehensive book, a great contribution giving important direction to the still emerging field of masculinities research. Kevin Walby, Carleton University.
Cultures of Masculinity might prove useful for those who wish to enter the field of masculinity studies, and get aquainted with some of the main current debates and controversies in this young field. Eran Shor, SUNY at Stony Brook.
Edwards has achieved a cogent and critically engaged overview of the diverse theoretical, therapeutic and political movements that make up the field. He also manages to anchor the abstraction that has characterised some of this work in experience and concrete social circumstances - Matt Cook, University of London
